The only licenses or permits I can really support are those for driving, operation, and or flying a vehicle, because there needs to be something that says you know how to work one of these vehicles for safety reasons, it isn't taking away your rights to have to have a license to operate something that can hurt many others, but any other license or permit is taking away your rights, I mean what is Permit sound like? Permission. And you know what true Americans DON'T do? Ask for permission. America is a land of rights and freedoms given by God himself and cannot be sold or manipulated, that's when a government has gotten too involved in civilian life, the founding fathers intended that you wouldn't have to mess with the government EVER if you didn't want to, and if you didn't hurt someone else. So why is it now that everyday we have to mess with it or we are breaking a law? It's insane to see what our fathers nation has come to, and yet it is still better than most other countries. Maybe I'll just move to a deserted island and create a micro-nation called the Empire of Liberty, that's not a bad idea actually (PS it's a joke I wouldn't want to run a country) #licenses#permits#proudamerican

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Make no mistake about it... when California changed its cannabis #regulations last week and allowed for 1] #unlimited size grows and for 2] #big businesses to be able to hold #unlimited numbers of #licenses.
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They completely #soldout to Big Business.
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There were supposed to be caps for the first 5 years to help insure the #cottage industry that has serviced California's medical cannabis needs for the last 20-plus years would survive. This is devastating for smaller and #craft style cannabis businesses.
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From #growers to #investors, the marijuana #industry has most everyone seeing green.

According to cannabis #research firm #ArcView, legal weed sales are expected to grow in North America by 26% a year through 2021, yielding a nearly $22 billion market. Of course, that could be touching the tip of the iceberg considering expansion opportunities in the U.S. and throughout the rest of the world.

At the heart of this growth in the U.S. has been a major change in the way consumers view pot. National pollster Gallup showed in 1995, the year before California became the first state to legalize #medical cannabis for compassionate use, that just 25% of respondents favored the idea of national #legalization. By October 2017, favorability toward national legalization rose to 64%, an all-time high. A separate poll from the independent Quinnipiac University in April 2017 found an overwhelming 94% support for medical cannabis' legalization.
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Long story short, Americans are mostly believers in the green rush, and the result has been a steady increase in state-level legalizations in recent years. Currently, 29 states have OK'd the use of medical cannabis for specific ailments, while voters in eight states have green-lighted the sale of weed for recreational purposes to adults.
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